Curriculum

The Office of Curriculum & Instruction helps to ensure that the Cambridge Public Schools, in partnership with our families and community, provides all students with rigorous, joyful, and culturally responsive learning, as well as the social, emotional, and academic supports each student needs to achieve their goals and postsecondary success as engaged community members. As educators in a learning organization engaged in continuous improvement, we will demonstrate a growth mindset and embrace risk-taking and innovation.

We promote collaboration among educators within and across schools, levels, and content areas to design, implement, and support learning experiences that make authentic connections across disciplines, are meaningful and relevant to our students, our community, and our world, and lead to growth in student understanding.

The team of JK-12 curriculum and program coordinators works in collaboration with principals, instructional coaches, and educators in the areas of instruction, curriculum, assessment and professional learning. Instructionally, we strive to create rigorous, joyful, culturally responsive learning experiences for all students and develop curriculum in alignment with this vision for teaching and learning and the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks. We believe that assessment is the process of gathering evidence of student understanding to inform instructional decisions and that assessments support the work of effective educators in continually observing, probing, investigating, analyzing and responding to their students' thinking and performance. Effective professional learning is student-centered, collaborative and transformative for educators and their students. We provide a variety of resources for educators, including professional learning, new educator induction, research, assessment & evaluation, and program development & grants.